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Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) fact-checked Fox News host Mike Emanuel over claims that Republicans were not interested in cutting Social Security.

During a Sunday interview, Casar explained that the Republican Party was "really dominated by those billionaire interests right now, where you have Elon Musk calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, saying that they'll eliminate billions of dollars from Social Security."

Republican strategist Gene Valentino lost his cool with liberal writer Ellis Henican over the weekend during a clash about struggling Tesla stock prices.

In a panel discussion on Sunday, Henican jabbed Valentino after the GOP strategist recommended investing in Tesla.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) tried to end an interview with ABC News after host Jonathan Karl asked an "inside the beltway" question about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

While speaking to Sanders, Karl wondered if Ocasio-Cortez had a future in the U.S. Senate.

Fox News host Howard Kurtz expressed concerns about "a major conflict of interest" after reports said that the Pentagon intended to provide billionaire Elon Musk with U.S. war plans against China.

According to The New York Times and other outlets, the Department of Defense was preparing a briefing for Musk but changed course after the intentions were revealed in the press. Musk has significant financial ties to Beijing and the Chinese government.

Reacting to Donald Trump's comments during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts this past week that accompanied his takeover of the venerable institution, an MSNBC host suggested that if Joe Biden was doing what the president is doing, there would be calls for cognitive testing.

The segment on "The Weekend" opened with Trump appearing on the balcony of the center with MSNBC providing a soundtrack of "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" from "Evita," before the hosts laughed their way through the president's plans to dictate the cultural future of the venue.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) revealed a plan to have teachers instruct "10 million kids at a time" while supporting President Donald Trump's effort to dismantle the Department of Education.

During a Sunday interview on Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan noted that Kentucky "gets the fourth most federal education funding per student of any state in this country."

Attorney General Pam Bondi singled out Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) over protests and alleged "domestic terrorism" against billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk for his role in dismantling parts of the federal government.

"What about these vandals on Tesla vehicles and dealerships?" Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Bondi during a Sunday interview. "Why are they doing this?"

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's glib response to seniors possibly not receiving their Social Security checks set off the hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend" on Sunday with host Michael Steele repeatedly shouting "How dare you?"

In an interview with podcaster Chamath Palihapitiya, the Donald Trump appointees claimed, "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month. My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain," before adding that anyone who protested the delay could well be a "fraudster."

After sharing the clip on Sunday morning, both Steele and co-host Symone Sanders Townsend covered their mouths in shock and dismay before Steele went off on a scathing rant.

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With Sanders Townsend calling the billionaire Trump appointee's comments "tone deaf" at minimum, Steele interjected, "What is his net worth?"

"So your mama would call you, she would call you and guess what you would do? You'd write her a check," Steele exclaimed. "But what about the mother who doesn't have someone that they can call to put money in that bank account for a month? You insensitive lug! How dare you? How dare you?"

Pointing to Lutnick's reported wealth, he continued, "$4 billion? Yeah, your mama's not going to work because if you're if you're any kind of a decent son, you're going to cover that month. But there are a lot of mothers out there who don't have that. How dare you?"

"I mean, this is the arrogance right now in America," he ranted. "This is the arrogance. They're looking you in the eye and saying you can miss your payments, you'll be okay,,you can feed your family with no money, you can clothe your family with no money for a month –– you can do that."

"You arrogant SOB," he added. "$4 billion and sitting there telling America you can miss a payment. My daddy's on Social Security. What is he going to do? He's going to come to me if he misses the payment because he's got a resource. He's got a son who can help him. He's got a daughter who can help him. But there are families that don't have people who can help them."

Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's special envoy, argued that it "doesn't matter" whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to take over Europe.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Witkoff told host Shannon Bream that Putin "wants peace" in Ukraine despite overnight attacks that killed at least seven people.

During an appearance on MSNBC, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe painted a portrait of Donald Trump's "lawless" assault on the judiciary that he believes will lead to a wave of violence.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Tribe, long a Trump critic, claimed that the president's incendiary comments about U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has been holding the administration to account for defying his orders to halt the deportation of Venezuelan nationals accused of being gang members, raises the threat level for any judge who opposes his illegal actions.

Calling Boasberg a "well-respected judge," Tribe decried that the attacks, which have included calls for impeachment, and suggested the end result is "ominous."

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He elaborated, "He [Trump] is trying to scare everybody by saying, 'You better follow my orders or we'll never know what's going to happen." And then, judges fear being shot –– all kinds of terrible things are going on."

"It's a pretty specific target," host Velshi agreed before adding, "He's referred to Judge Boasberg as a radical left lunatic. This is a judge who was appointed first to the bench by George W Bush, and then to his current role by Barack Obama. In all my reading of him, I don't know where you one would find either radical or left or lunatic."

Calling impeachment of judges a threat to the independent judiciary, Tribe told the MSNBC host, "One of the pillars of the rule of law that prevents us from becoming a complete dictatorship, or an oligarchy, or an autocracy of some other kind, is the idea that the judiciary is independent –– it doesn't always have the last word."

Warning that is not "how a country that is based on law and order and self-government can ever survive," he then accused, "And that's why I think the virus that has been spreading ever since the January 6th insurrection has got to be combated with all the tools at our disposal."

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While taking part in a CNN panel on Saturday morning, a former aide to Donald Trump during his first term claimed Elon Musk is now hurting her former boss and his time as a constant presence in the Oval Office may be coming to an end.

That led another conservative guest on CNN's "Table for Five" to chime in and point out the clock is already ticking on the billionaire as he is not officially a federal employee.

Speaking with host Abby Phillip, ex-Trump White House adviser Alyssa Farah Griffin claimed Musk's cratering approval numbers in polls are starting to rub off on the president which will lead him to putting distance between himself and the increasingly embattled billionaire.

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Melik Abdul, a member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition, jumped in with, "I did want to say, to just piggyback off of what Alyssa was saying, is that –– and I've also said that Elon Musk would be a problem, not just for Donald Trump, though, but for the Republican Party –– and I think that we're seeing this now, and this isn't the first set of polls that have shown that Elon Musk's popularity is going down."


"Can I just say just quickly, just because Alyssa, you talked about he won't be around long?" he told the panel. "I just want to remind everybody that as a special government employee, he {Musk] has 130 days to serve within a calendar year. I've said many times before, I think that after the 130 days, Elon Musk will be gone," he continued.

"It's a convenient out, right?" Legal affairs journalist Jay Michaelson interjected. "We know that Trump doesn't care a lot about the niceties of the law. He could just go over it if he wants, but I agree this is a perfect way for him to get him out."

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Donald Trump was taunted by former NSC adviser Alexander Vindman on Saturday morning after the president made a big show of revoking his security clearance late Friday night.

As the retired U.S. Army officer pointed out, he hasn't had a security clearance for five years and the president failed to do his homework.

The co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," burst into laughter on Saturday morning after watching Donald Trump play defense for billionaire Elon Musk and his visit to the Pentagon to reportedly be briefed on military planning for a China conflict despite White House disavowals.

With Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) as a guest, the trio of Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez watched the clip from the Oval Office on Friday where Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tried to downplay the Musk visit, with the president getting in the last word.

According to Trump, the billionaire, who does a substantial amount of business in China, has no interest in Pentagon planning for a possible conflict even if it was offered.

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In the nationally-televised Oval Office press availability, the president asserted, "I might add that I think, Elon, if they ever wanted to do that, I think Elon wouldn't do it. I think he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't want to put himself in that position. "

That elicited laughter from all three co-hosts with Steele jumping in to say, "Okay. So that that last part, that, okay, I was buying your BS up until that last part because you know damn well that if Elon Musk has access to sensitive Chinese information, given what the congressman just said about all his business interests in China –– yeah, he's sitting for that meeting."

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